After Tasia Fortune was found hanging in a tree, the Jackson Police Department prioritized a "staged" narrative over the cause of death, leaving her family without answers.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Police claim Tasia Fortune was killed in a drug dispute, but the decision to stage her body in a tree evokes a history of racial terror the state refuses to name.
By Alma Cordero ·
In the diplomatic corps, we are taught that the most dangerous thing in a room is not a threat, but a silence. Silence is where assumptions grow and credibility dies.
By Tom Beckwith ·
The image of a Black body hanging from a tree in Mississippi is not a "case" to be solved; it is a scream from the past that refuses to be silenced.
By Sophie Naimi ·
There is a specific, shivering kind of silence that settles over a Mississippi town when a body is found hanging from a tree. It is not the silence of peace, but the silence of a long, heavy memory.
By Caroline Ashford ·